Women's preferences for obstetric care in rural Ethiopia: A population-based discrete choice experiment in a region with low rates of facility delivery

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 984-988

  Kruk, M E ^a   Paczkowski, M M ^b   Tegegn, A ^c   Tessema, F ^c   Hadley, C ^d   Asefa, M ^c   Galea, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; RURAL AREA; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DELIVERY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRAVEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRAVEL;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 78149255235     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.087973     Document Type: Article

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